In 1982 the United Nations issued first global warming warnings, and they were dire. 'Severe climate change within fifteen years!' Then, a couple of years later, up went another red flag: 'Climate disaster by the turn of the century!' Then earlier this year came the latest, with …

Residents of the small, northeast Nebraska town of Pilger are beginning a seemingly impossible cleanup operation today after rare - and in this case deadly - twin tornadoes swept through the area, killing two and injuring 19 others, while destroying more than half the town's structures.

A just released study in the Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences shows that hurricanes with feminine names turn out to be deadlier in the United States than their more macho-sounding counterparts. The biggest reason, researchers suggest, is that people underestimate storm severity becaus…

Handout, Getty According to the National Hurricane Center, a trough of low pressure over the Bay of Campeche is producing a large area of cloudiness and disorganized showers over much of the southern Gulf.